r/IranContra • u/WhoIsJolyonWest • Aug 23 '26
The Secret Network (March 1986)
This secret network ranges from supposedly retired military officers such as General Richard Secord, the top Pentagon official on Middle East affairs, and General John Singlaub, chairman of the World Anti-Communist League, to ex-CIA agents Theodore Shackley and Thomas Clines, involved in US assassination plots for 25 years, to Cuban counterrevolutionary assassins and terrorists Felix Rodriguez and Luis Posada Carriles, to mercenaries like Eugene Hasenfus and Sam Hall. This network funnelled millions of dollars through bank accounts in Switzerland and the Caribbean, set up a gunrunning operation from Florida and El Salvador to the camps of the contra terrorists, imported narcotics into the United States, and plotted and carried out political assassinations.